AJ, Cortney, and Rachelle arrived today. Yay! The gang’s all here! We decided to take a short hike at sunset. The trail was about 100 yards from our back door! How nice!
NOTE: The photo to the right is a link to the album for the entire week.
We packed up our campsite and drove to Sedona, today. We drove through some beautiful country but we couldn’t stop much because we wanted to get to Sedona as quickly as possible so Zaiden didn’t have to sit in the car too long. Even without stopping much, he started to get a little cranky towards the end of the trip.
The last part of the drive was absolute gorgeous. We took the scenic route from Flagstaff (horrible drivers there, by the way) to Sedona. You drop several thousand feet on that drive (I think it’s something like three or four thousand?) and it is just beautiful. Narrow windy road — I wouldn’t want to tow a trailer or drive a bigger RV on that road, though.
We checked into our resort, the Sedona Summit. It seems like a pretty nice place. We have a studio and a two bedroom for all of us. We were hoping to have two rooms close together but the two bedroom was upgraded “randomly” (uh huh) so it’s a bit of a walk between the two. The closes swimming pool is under construction, too, so we’ll have to walk a little bit. Ah well!
The photo at the right is a link to photos from the entire week in Sedona.
I don’t have much to say about today. We just had a relaxing day with the boy. He walked around a bunch, we went for a short “hike” to some petroglyphs. It was near enough to the campground that we walked to the trail head but by the time we got to it, we were ready to head back to our site because it was awfully hot if you weren’t in the shade. Plus, we brought Zaiden in his stroller rather than our backpack for him and we couldn’t take that on the hike. He was asleep by then. One high point was when Zaiden took a nap and Nikki and I went down to the river and read together. It was really nice. 
Oh! Skipping cereal did the trick. He kept his food down all day and seems OK, now. On a funny note, we had this cute little native-American cap to wear and it looks more like a yamika (not sure how to spell that). heh …
Tomorrow, we’ll be packing up and heading to Sedona to meet up with Nikki’s family. Woot woot!
We woke up this morning and I felt tons better. Nikki, on the other hand, didn’t. She had been up a few times through the night and was feeling quite nautous and queezy. Zaiden was doing a little better than that but clearly wasn’t doing so well. As I was feeding him breakfast, he seemed quite lethargic. After eating most of his meal, he threw up. Pretty much all of it. After that, he seemed to be feeling much better. He was giggly and happy. I guess even babies feel better after yacking when they need to.
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A few weekends ago, Nikki, Zaiden, and I drove up to see her dad, Bob. I had asked him if he would help me build a cargo drawer for my FJ because his boss has a nice shop and I don’t even have a garage. He agreed and we set to work that day. At the end of the day it was almost complete. It didn’t slide very well so the following weekend I fixed that and painted it black. It’s done, now, and I just love it. It is really nice packing things in there and still having access to them even when there is a ton of other things on top of it. As usual, click on the photo to the right for more.
I woke up on Monday morning feeling awful. We were supposed to pack up and head towards Kayenta, UT through Moab and do some camping on our way to Sedona, AZ. TOTAL bummer. Not only was I sick but we had to pack up and leave the hotel. We called mom and dad, who were out of town (they live in Fruita) and asked if we could stay at their house so I could get healthy. They were OK with it so Nikki (bless her heart) packed up everything. I mean everything. All I did was some of the bigger stuff that went on top of the FJ and the bikes. I felt pretty useless.
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We decided we’d stay in Fruita two nights because the hotel we booked was pretty nice. We had a big suite with a hot tub in our room. We didn’t want to stay there one night and not enjoy the room we booked. So, on Sunday we decided to do some four wheeling. The FJ was mostly unloaded so we went to the visitor center in Fruita. The suggested going out “18 Road” but I wanted to get something more specific. Our hotel room had a little pamphlet that mentioned they have maps in the Grand Junction visitor center so we tooled on down the road. Wouldn’t you know it? They were out of maps! The lady suggested we head over to a sporting goods store that has the maps. Guess what? The sporting goods store didn’t have any idea what I was asking for! They has some fancy schmancy little computer where you select what you want a map of and it’ll print out and be laminated and all that but they didn’t have anything that was specific to four wheeling! (more…)
Today we’re hitting the road for two weeks! We’re going to drive to Fruita, CO, and stay there for a night or two in a hotel. From there, we’ll drive down through Moab, UT and find a couple of spots to camp on our way to Sedona, AZ, where we’ll meet up with Nikki’s family to stay at a nice resort, The Sedona Summit, for a week. We’re stoked for a two week vacation as we haven’t done this. Most of our vacations are only about ten days.
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We spent Easter with Nikki’s family this year. The whole gang was there including Belinda and Brianna. We went to Easter service in Castle Rock where we had to leave Zaiden in the baby room because he was getting a little “fussy.” It was kinda weird, to me, that we had to leave him there and couldn’t just go in there with him. It was more of a surprise to me, though, because Nikki left the service and came back without him.
After the service, we mosied on back to AJ’s house where we colored Easter Eggs, had an Easter Egg Hunt, and broke Cascarones over each other’s head. Cascarones are a Mexican Easter tradition: you color a raw egg, drain the contents, and fill it with confetti. On Easter Sunday, you take one of these and break it over someone’s head. It is really a lot of fun for childrean and adults alike.
We took lots of photos so click on the one at the right to view the entire gallery.
Nikki and I are on vacation right now and I have a little time to catch up on some blogging. I figure I’ll take this first post as an opportunity to put up some miscellaneous photos of Zaiden. I picked a few cute ones from early 2008 for your enjoyment. As usual, click on the photo to the right to get into the photo album. Enjoy!